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Thursday Creative Day is the day the children really look forward to. It is an opportunity to get messy, design and paint props, enjoy a make-up workshop (from the guidance of our Make-up Consultant Helen Coupe), and have the freedom to put their interpretations into the work they have been doing all week.

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Just to remind you Junior classes end this Friday 29th June 2018 for the summer break! I hope you all have a great summer and I look forward to a new academic year starting in September 2018…dates for the new year will be sent out to you in due course and on the AliCaT website.

PHOTOGRAPHS AND DOWNLOAD

For those of you wishing to purchase production photographs and a performance video of your Childs show, a link will be emailed to you very shortly. Below is just a sampleI took on my phone during the first Dress Rehearsal of one of the classes…the professional download will be available very soon!

May I take this opportunity to wish all the children and families not returning the very best for the future and hope all your next ventures and activities are a great success! I’m sure the skills you have learnt at AliCaT will help you. Don’t forget if your circumstances should change in anyway, please do not hesitate to get back in touch…

Best wishes Ali x

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This weekend has been a fabulous success! I want to thank everyone involved in their contribution to making ‘The Blue Bottle’ an excellent theatre experience for the children and families. We saw four shows this weekend from the Junior AliCaT’s and I am so proud of all their achievements.

I personally would like to thank Shaun Batt for his amazing set, photography, filming of the show and encouragement throughout the whole process, Susie Pain for her hard work and dedication to the children and me, Fiona and Pearl Milton for their help and support and Mary Gould, Connie Gould, John Jones, Mum and Dad for their full commitment to the whole weekend. I am so happy and so thankful to everyone involved!

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Final preparations have begun for the forthcoming Junior production of ‘The Blue Bottle’. It’s a magical musical story, loosely based on an Irish folk tale about luck, greed and folly.

The poverty stricken Riley family are reduced to selling their last cow. On his way to market John Riley meets a mysterious Stranger and exchanges his cow for an enchanted Blue Bottle. His wife, Kate and the children are furious until the Bottle is tried out and magical Sprites appear with a marvellous feast. However this good fortune does not turn out to be the end to all misery…come find out what happens!

This years Junior Production is called ‘The Blue Bottle’ and it is to be performed in June 2018. The story is loosely based on an Irish folk tale. It’s a magical story about luck, greed and folly. To order your tickets please click on the poster below and it will take you to the contacts page.

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It’s that time of year! With end of year productions looming in June and July, AliCaT would greatly appreciate any help with front of house duties, i.e. running of bar/refreshments and simple box office duties…no experience necessary, just your time and a friendly smile! Please let us know on the contact page and we will all be very grateful! Many thanks…x

Box Office: susie@alicat.me/01275 791275 or at your child’s next class.

Archibald’s War (2016)

Lucy’s Grandma remembers 1939… A little girl, Maggie, clutches her precious teddy bear. She’s being evacuated and it’s noisy, crowded and busy in the station. Still, at least she’s got her teddy bear, Archibald! Maggie and her brother Tom share a compartment with their friends: weepy Edith, and the loud, boisterous Baxters. It’s a long journey, but the Guard is friendly and the children look after each other – when they’re not arguing! Arriving in the countryside, the children wait to be picked by the host families. Only then does Maggie realise she’s left Archibald on the train… As Lucy listens to her Grandma’s memories, she doesn’t guess the surprising ending to Archibald’s story.

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We Are Monsters is a hilarious new musical that follows human kids into a monster cabaret filled with quirky monster characters. The adventurous humans uncover vegetarian vampires and rock n’ roll werewolves, gradually realizing there may be more to these monsters than meets the eye! Most importantly these monsters and kids discover the importance of friendship and celebrating in the attributes that make each of us different and unique.

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Travis, Muriel and Alice bring together the Music, Beads and Flowers celebration. They call upon the popular singing group, The Lemon Bugs, who love the idea. When the message goes out that The Bugs will donate their talent, crazily-painted busses start arriving at Crumb’s Apple Farm, the site of the festival. Everything is cool until Mrs Porter, who hates ‘The Love Generation’, arrives and demands that the local police shut down the happening. To make matters even worse, two music promoters offer the Lemon Bugs a deal they can’t refuse if they will skip the celebration. In the end all comes together of course, and the Music, Beads and Flowers celebration rocks on.

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Young twins Jack & Liza Periwinkle yearn for adventure, so imagine their joy at discovering a real life treasure map! But when the infamous Redbeard and his pungent Pirates of the Curry Bean steal the map and kidnap their mother, the race is on to rescue her, reclaim the map and find the treasure! Accompanied by their faithful cat Fiddlesticks, the twins join a mad admiral and his crazy crew on a voyage of adventure that takes them from Old London Docks to the mysterious island of Lumbago in the sea of Sciatica!

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AliCaT production What a Knight (Sun)

What a Knight (2011):

When young squire Watt Cobblers is expelled from Knight School, he reluctantly becomes Merlin’s new apprentice. But trouble is never far away, and soon Camelot Castle collapses into chaos. Merlin has lost Excalibur, King Arthur’s daughters have been kidnapped and his brave knights have turned into chickens. Watt and his new found friends Dusty Dragon and wayward Princess Alice set off on the biggest quest of their lives.

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AliCaT production of What a Knight (Sat)

What a Knight (2011):

When young squire Watt Cobblers is expelled from Knight School, he reluctantly becomes Merlin’s new apprentice. But trouble is never far away, and soon Camelot Castle collapses into chaos. Merlin has lost Excalibur, King Arthur’s daughters have been kidnapped and his brave knights have turned into chickens. Watt and his new found friends Dusty Dragon and wayward Princess Alice set off on the biggest quest of their lives.

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AliCaT production of The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker (2010):

A group of children in a drought-ridden country embark upon a journey to find the Lord of the Rain. Learning secrets about ‘medicine’ and ‘power’ from the animals of the Rainforest, Chep discovers his own true colours as he helps the Rainmakers to overthrow the evil Kongan Hab, recover the rain capes and finally discover the biggest secret of all from the Rainmaker himself.

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AliCaT production of The Selfish Giant

The Selfish Giant (2009):

The Giant returns from his 7 year holiday with the Cornish Ogre to find children playing in his garden. He builds a high wall to keep them out but the garden is then invaded by raucous characters that plague him. Spring never returns and it is always winter until one day the giant meets a boy who needs his help.

“It is truly magical to see children (some of whom I thought prior to today were very short on confidence) performing so brilliantly and clearly really, really enjoying themselves and having enormous fun. I think you are teaching the children skills that will be so invaluable during the course of their lives. Thank you very, very much.”